Documentation - PhotoSync

PhotoSync is not a general-purpose tool for synchronizing a whole directory of images to the device. It feeds images to the device at a given interval, which refreshes the device with ever-changing content.

Pointing PhotoSync at your desktop's "My Pictures" folder (with, for example, 1000 images that have been taken with a digital camera) will load in a few of those images at a time to the device.

PhotoSync will download an image from that folder to the device every few minutes (or however you have it set in PhotoSync settings). They are downloaded to the device's \My Documents\ directory and art named "PhotoSync_1234.jpg" -- where 1234 is an incrementing number (increments with each download). If Pocket Album is running and is in SmartAlbum mode, it will loop over all the images on your device, and will detect the new images being loaded to your device, creating a virtual picture frame on your device. There should be options if you open up ActiveSync and click Options, then PhotoSync, then click Options again.

Also, note that it scales the photos down before transferring them, so the resident size of the synced images is under 100K usually. This is only featured in the PhotoSync system and not in the general ActiveSync file copy system. If you are viewing a picture in Pocket Album that is a large JPEG, the command Tools->Resize Image will shrink it down to the device dimensions.



Tapping Tools->Keep Image will rename the PhotoSync_0001.jpg filename to Image_1.jpg, which will not be deleted by PhotoSync. This is useful when PhotoSync downloads an image which you would like to keep on the device.



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